Thursday, June 2, 2016

CulinaryOn opened it's first studio in Moscow in 2012 and received the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence in the category of Master-Classes and seminars in 2015.

Now it opened up it's second studio, the largest cooking studio in Asia - CulinaryOn Singapore is here in Singapore, right in the heart of the bustling Central Business District! But who knows, amongst one of the buildings, houses the existence of this spacious 7000 sq ft studio, which can be divided into 4 event areas, a conference room, a bar and each area comes with its own cooking area ! Come, take your culinary journey to a new height or begin your culinary journey with an unforgettable experience!

This stylish and beautiful area definitely took my breath away. It looks like a dream kitchen everyone wishes to have!

The very stylish work space we spent at for the evening.

At each time, it can accommodate up to 200 guests! Culinaryon edutainment format is best defined as "The Disneyland of cooking schools". We totally rocked the studio with our laughter and cheers that evening!

If you fall into the following category below, do read on :
- Looking for some motivation to start learning how to cook. This awesome studio is fully equipped with everything that you need. Just let your hair down and cook on! Don't be too stress if it's your virgin attempt in cooking, there are kitchen helpers to help you out. Totally stress free !!

- Looking for some master classes to attend ? Each master class session will be hosted by an Executive Chef, a SOUS Chef, an Event Master, a Bar Man whom you can go to for drinks should you feel thirsty half through the session and a Photographer who captures all the fun moments of the session. You can also go through the calender for the different themes on various dates and time. I guarantee you that you will be spoilt for choice !

- Looking for ideas for private social networking parties or PR events.
- Looking for a space to conduct your business trainings, corporate team building or cooking entertainment shows.
- Looking for an unique date with your child, spouse, partner or your best buddy.
- Looking for a different kind of birthday celebration or any special occasion, it's perfect for kids 7 & above and it's suitable for adults too ! If you would like to have a fun and tasty time with your kakis !

Read on as I take you through my experience with CulinaryOn on both private event and a kid's birthday celebration !

CulinaryOn have a range of wine to cater to wine lovers and they bottled their own wine as well. Do check out with the staff if you are there.

The cosy bar counter welcomes the guests for a chill out anytime before the session starts. Oh well, I wish I could drink but I could only drink juices.=p

Too cute to resist, we have to take a picture with these giant wooden props !

Us and the giant spatulas !

Our dishes for the evening with Chef Daniel.

Working in groups of 5, our group was a mixture of ladies who hardly cook, never cook before or like myself who just cook for the family but not yet to the level of a professional chef.

I learnt tips on how to cut fruits not that I do not know how but you'll be surprised that there are other easier and more creative ways and I cut it in a different way now!

We were going to cook Tagliatelle with Porchini (white mushroom) from SCRTACH !! How exciting as I had always wanted to learn and watch how it was being done.

In the midst of preparing the dough, we had a fun and mini challenge on who can pinch up the egg yolks ! This is one way which you can tell if the egg is fresh. If the egg is fresh, you should be able to pinch the yolk without breaking it. You can also try it at home, before you start and make sure your hand is very dry before attempting to pinch.

I was really trying very hard !

And yes ! I got it ! The success of pinching the yolk got us all excited to the max !

I DID IT !! THE YOLK !

We were also taught on how to test if the dough is ready and the next challenge for the teams was, which team can form the longest dough? We were looking at each other when we were told to create the longest pasta. The process was great as we got a chance to use this awesome Kenwood Chef Sense Kitchen Machine, I was unsure of the model though. But I was definitely blown away by it!

Each and every single one of us had the opportunity to try cutting the dough into Tagliatelle (long, flat ribbons)

Here's what we had produced from that ball of dough ! Having loads of fun trying to form the longest pasta.

Here's my turn to make it into Tagliatelle !

Chefs at work and those huge flames !

Got to witness some science experiment as well! What a blast ! I assured you no loud blast but a room full of WOW !

This awesome kitchen tool can instantly make ice-cream too with the added liquid nitrogen!

Laughter was heard throughout the session as we were involved in mini challenges which made the whole process really enjoyable ! You could see the state of the egg white after being whisked manually by hand, arm muscle training moment in exchange for that few minutes of excitement and fun, WORTH IT !

Look ! Nothing fell out ! We made it !

Here's our culinary creation for that evening. The texture of the tagliatelle was really just nice for my liking. It's slightly springy and simply delish !

Tagliatelle with Porchini

I hardly eat ice cream when am out but you got to really try this recipe ! It's soft, creamy yet not too sweet ! It went really well with the fruit salad. I really would not mind a second serving but it was gone too fast!

Fruit Salad with Mango Ice cream

"Graduated" =)

On the same month, we received an invitation to Jorel's 8th Birthday Bash.

Super love the classy table set up !

This time, the kids get to have their share of fun but without the parents ! Hence, we got to relax one corner for about 2 hours, chilled and catch up with the other moms while the kids get to get their hands "dirty" with the flour and eggs and hours of fun !

This was the spread of finger food served for the guests while waiting for the little ones.

I loved this pastry wrapped with sausage, it was crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside.

Light and refreshing Japanese Soba

A Zootopia themed party for Jorel !

Zootopia themed party

Tidbits corner

Once a while, parents would allowed to be into the kitchen area and take some pictures, otherwise we would be waiting in the other studio or we could watch them from outside through the glass door.
The only place I believed, Xav and the children could throw a handful of flour at the mums without getting scolded yet could hear how the mummies screamed and ran away!

Thank you for staying through with me and if you would love to experience this unique and awesome culinary journey, CulinaryOn Singpore has generously sponsored the discount code and giveaways !! READ ON !!

[For Corporate Bookings ] :

For booking of corporate or team building events, provide with this promo code "GELATO-RIC", you will be entitled to a 10% off any event above $2,500 plus 1 Complimentary CulinaryOn Cookbook (worth $30 SGD) per pax.

**Note that the show is on Wednesdays and Thursdays only.
Chosen winner will have to contact the Event Manager for pre-registration and reservation. The pair of complimentary tickets comes with terms and condition as follows:- Valid till End September 2016

Terms and Conditions :
- Contest runs from 2-10 June 2016 and ends at 2359 hours.
- Contest is for residents residing in Singapore only.
- Any incomplete entries will be disqualified.
- Winners will be contacted via email and have 24 hours to respond before a new winner to be picked again.

This was my second time attending an event at this place, and was my first business event here (the other event was a charity show). Everything at venues in houston was perfect, the drinks and food was amazing. Even the coffee was wonderful.